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All of them?
Unsure which wouldn't apply.
But that said... now I've successfully de-Amazon'd I'm starting to de-Google... so I'm an outlier in being critical. Won't dispose of hardware, but just shifted off of Gmail, etc.
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I guess I'm a bit naive to what the security issues are! I'm not into Alexa - voice control isn't that appealing to me anyway, and they seem the worst for where voice recordings end up. Other than that, I'm not super fussed about the view from my front door, particularly (maybe I should be?), so what else is there that's not occurring to me?
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Ring doorbell system:
My wife ordered one (doorbell + chime). We don't use any Alexa devices, because evil. All we really need to use the Ring for is standard doorbell stuff, but also being notified of doorbell when we're working in shed office. What, if any, of the various concerns regarding Amazon home stuff would still apply? We'd be using it with the chime device for standard use, and the app when we're in the garden